0.27.0 Terminator: Genisys¶
Hi guys, here I am, announcing yet another avocado release! The most exciting news for this release is that our avocado-vt plugin was merged with the virt-test project. The avocado-vt plugin will be very important for QEMU/KVM/Libvirt developers, so the main avocado received updates to better support the goal of having a good quality avocado-vt.
Changes in avocado:
The avocado human output received some tweaks and it’s more compact, while still being informative. Here’s an example:
JOB ID : f2f5060440bd57cba646c1f223ec8c40d03f539b JOB LOG : /home/user/avocado/job-results/job-2015-07-27T17.13-f2f5060/job.log JOB HTML : /home/user/avocado/job-results/job-2015-07-27T17.13-f2f5060/html/results.html TESTS : 1 (1/1) passtest.py:PassTest.test: PASS (0.00 s) RESULTS : PASS 1 | ERROR 0 | FAIL 0 | SKIP 0 | WARN 0 | INTERRUPT 0 TIME : 0.00 s
The avocado test loader was refactored and behaves more consistently in different test loading scenarios.
The utils API received new modules and functions:
NEW avocado.utils.cpu: APIs related to CPU information on linux boxes [1]
NEW avocado.utils.git: APIs to clone/update git repos [2]
NEW avocado.utils.iso9660: Get information about ISO files [3]
NEW avocado.utils.service: APIs to control services on linux boxes (systemv and systemd) [4]
NEW avocado.utils.output: APIs that help avocado based CLI programs to display results to users [5]
UPDATE avocado.utils.download: Add url_download_interactive
UPDATE avocado.utils.download: Add new params to get_file
Bugfixes. You may refer to [6] for the full list of 64 commits.
Changes in avocado-vt:
Merged virt-test into avocado-vt. Basically, the virt-test core library (virttest) replaced most uses of autotest by equivalent avocado API calls, and its code was brought up to the virt-test repository [7]. This means, among other things, that you can simply install avocado-vt through RPM and enjoy all the virt tests without having to clone another repository manually to bootstrap your tests. More details about the process will be sent on an e-mail to the avocado and virt-test mailing lists. Please go to [7] for instructions on how to get started with all our new tools.
See you in a couple of weeks for our next release! Happy testing!